The Death of the Choice Field in SharePoint 2010?
When should you use a Choice field versus a Managed Metadata field in SharePoint 2010? Should all choice fields be converted to the new MMD fields?
Out of the box Configuration
Extending the SharePoint 2010 Document ID Feature Screencast
Screencast on how to configure and extend the document ID feature within SharePoint 2010
Portal Site Connection in SharePoint 2010
How has the Portal Site Connection functionality changed in SharePoint 2010? Well its still there and can be leveraged to easily associate Site Collection to different Site Collection from a navigation perspective.
How to get the Content Organizer to automatically create folders
You need to make sure that the field that you wish to automatically create folders on is required at the Content Type level, this post shows a brief example of this.
Business Value
SharePoint 2010 In Education
Some thoughts and trends on SharePoint 2010 and Unified Communications in the education sector.
How Social Tools in SharePoint 2010 Encourage Engagement and Innovation
Justifying the cost of the Social Tools in SharePoint can be an interesting proposition. In this article we outline some of the strategys you can use in addition to showing where using Social tools can actually decrease the time spent on certain activities.
What makes a good SharePoint Analyst?
What is a SharePoint analyst and how can an Analyst add value to clients and to the SharePoint platform?
How does the Analyst role differ than that of the SharePoint architect or Developer?
Cheet Sheets
BCS External List Limitations
Details the limitations that External Lists have within SharePoint 2010 and how this can be confusing to both administrators and end users.
Term Store Options and Configuration
The Term Store is the new one stop shop within SharePoint 2010 to define metadata to be used across your organisation. In this article we look at some of the configuration options, limits and permissions that are useful to know before constructing your solution.
SharePoint 2010 Site Search Drop Down Mode
There is a range of new options specified for the Site search menu in SharePoint 2010. This post explains what they actually do!
Customizations
Are Document Sets Evil?
So I have been playing around with Document Sets for a while and even though I think that they are a great idea, the current out of the box implementation is lacking. To the point that I think that they might be evil! Well not really but there are some issues which you should be [...]
Show Percentages in SharePoint 2010 Search Refiner Counts
Shows how you can show percentages of returned results rather than counts in the search refinement panel in SharePoint 2010.
Creating an RSS reader using a Federated Search Web Part
How to create an RSS Reader using the Federated Search Results Web Part so that you have a free RSS reader for WSS 3.0
Infrastructure/Development
SharePoint Powershell Object Properties and Methods
Shows the different ways to access SharePoint 2010 Objects, Properties and Methods in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Powershell for Solution Deployment (WSP)
How to use Powershell in SharePoint 2010 for solution deployment including adding, removing and upgrading both Farm and Sandbox solutions
SharePoint PowerShell for Beginners Part 1
Basic usage of Powershell with Share Point 2010, learn how to start using Powershell for yourself!
General
Content Type Publishing Error in SharePoint 2010
What happens when you cant find published content types on your Site Collection? You are missing a feature that need to be activated in order for it to appear.
The Death of the Choice Field in SharePoint 2010?
When should you use a Choice field versus a Managed Metadata field in SharePoint 2010? Should all choice fields be converted to the new MMD fields?
Consuming SharePoint Content Types in Office 2010
How to create content types that are defined in SharePoint 2010 through the Office 2010 client. This is an awesome feature that allows users to create content from within Office from a specific content type with actually needing to navigate to the document library.
Use this functionality to create corporate content types accessible from the Office Client
